When one group of people has weapons, and the other doesn’t, it won’t be long before the first group decides the 2nd group looks like easy pickings.
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Really? That’s what we’re doing now? We don’t have enough public shootings daily in this country, now we’re going to add drone bombing to the mix? C’mon. What’s your excuse now? Is there another amendment to the constitution? The 2nd amendment guarantees you the right to bear arms. So what’s it going to be now? The 28th amendment guarantees you the right to bear wings?
HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yup, stay strapped. The fascist sure are.
HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Equality does not truly exist until everyone is equally armed. Money can only be synonymous with power, as long as the people allow it to be.
When two groups of people are more or less equally armed, neither has the advantage over the other.
What many people fail to realize is that while armaments have changed over thousands of years, as long as there appears to be a balance of power, peace happens.
But once one group or another no longer perceives “the other” as being equal in power to them war is inevitable.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yep couldn’t have said it better. The fascist are armed, trying to reason with these people and use the laws are getting no where. Once they start with the violence, and it will happen, then you’re gonna wish you weren’t so anti-2a real quick.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Don’t fall for the fear mongering. Anyone that wants to turn an off the shelf drone into a weapon has been able to for years.
fluxion@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not if we ban adhesives, straps, glue, welding equipment, string, and bendable wires. Think of the children.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
For example, my Fimi (Xiaomi) drone has a factory accessory specifically to enable it to carry and drop stuff. I’ve had it for years. They market this as a search and rescue thing, i.e. you can strap medical supplies to it or something and fly them out to a hard to reach location.
Any tit could just stick a grenade on it instead, but the rub there is that any tit is not allowed to just buy a grenade. The article above is full of breathless scaremongering about fiber optic tethers and guidance systems, but stops well short of specifying just what the fuck these imaginary bad actors are expected to do with the drone once they’ve got it over the presumptive target. If somebody’s already got a bomb, the problem is that they’ve already got a bomb.
duckworthy36@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
The thing is, you can do plenty of damage just with gravity. Fly high enough and drop anything and it becomes a weapon. Theres a YouTuber I follow who tried destroying a car by dropping things with a drone. It was scary.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Very true, but at that rate I think actually nailing your target becomes a concern.
Unless your goal is to just spread fear and discord, in which case it probably doesn’t matter much. Just load that sucker up with a brace of lawn darts and let it rip.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Exactly